This course analyses corporate management by examining two interconnected themes: (a) literature and debates, and (b) the macro and micro background. The first theme presents a form of business analysis that draws on three sources. First, it outlines relevant management/strategy literatures. Second, it introduces political economy debates, which help them to understand the changing structural context around firms and industry. Third, it demonstrates how market, financial and productive analysis can be used to develop empirically based stories about strategies and their outcomes. The second theme contains two features: first, economic/product market context; second, use of business analysis methods to allow case study work.